Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's other charge: that he established large losses by fraudulent security sales, chiefly to his own family holding companies (TIME, March 4 & 11). On the first day the old Pittsburgh financier was his usual painfully shy self. But on the second day he perked up, grew garrulous, cracked mild jokes. Coached by his famed chief counsel, smart little Frank J. Hogan of Washington, he seemed actually to enjoy reminiscing publicly over his rise to power, sketching a portrait of himself as patriot, father, man of affairs...
...event saddened many, it surprised few. As she aged, the Mauretania grew more & more expensive to operate. Two years ago her owners painted her famed old hull white, sent her on West Indies cruises. Last autumn she was tied up at Southampton with a skeleton crew aboard. In January the crew was dismissed, the four big stacks covered over, the 70,000-h.p. turbines shut down...
...trainer of racehorses for people like Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Bayard Swope and Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. Mary Hirsch as a small girl made a habit of keeping trainers' hours. She got up at dawn to watch the workouts, helped her father's stablemen feed the horses, grew to know as much about such matters as Max Hirsch himself. In 1931, when she finished school...
...shocked were newshawks by these lugubrious words, that they gave scant heed to two interesting observations by this rich steelmaster who grew richer out of Wartime manufacture of arms...
...seen before, throw it aside, and play if off fluently from note memory, a feat few have been able to master' . . . One distinction in particular contributed to his prestige. This was his election in his sophomore year as conductor of the Pierian Sodality, the college musical society . . . . . As he grew older he found a keen enjoyment in charades and masquerade balls, spending weeks prior to his school vacations planning brave entertainments for the recess...